It starts today

The something to it is that if you say it enough folks will begin to believe it. Just like on his campaign trail. Then once people only listen to him he can create the facts he wants to govern by.

 

That photo is fake news. His physique looks nothing like that.

 

But they didn't. No magnetometers were used, yet that was what the press secretary pointed to... something that wasn't there.

 

Make no mistake: a lot of enthusiastic people showed up on Friday. More than most inaugurations. Just not more than Obama's first. Wouldn't be cooler to say one's SECOND nomination had more people than one's first, anyway? I don't understand why the press secretary came out and lied to us, even citing things like magnetometers that weren't there, saying that the grass coverings hadn't been used before, etc.

 

The plan is to change the way the budget is calculated, then claim it was reduced bigly. It's known.

 

Trump needs a foil. He's the type that needs/wants enemies, or sees them everywhere, and he's chosen the media as his major adversary, which, in some ways, is beneficial to him because they will be there every day of his administration. So, he has that built in war available whenever he wants it, which will be often. It's ironic due to the fact that the media made his campaign by giving him so much free campaign time by salivating over his every move and outlandish statement on the trail. I can't imagine how exhausting that would be. Hell, it will get old real fast just watching it. But, he seems to be driven with a laser like focus on mitigating this battle with the media, which is probably not going to go well for either side,

And, let's be real about this effort by Trump vis a vis the media. He has no interest in reforming the media or righting ideological biases. He's interested in their coverage of him and garnering the most amount of deference possible. He handles dissent and criticism worse than any president in modern history, with only Nixon rivaling his berating and paranoia of the fourth estate. His clear insistence on being distracted by every perceived slight will become a major drag on his presidency. We're on day 3 of talking about ****ing crowd size at his inauguration, a discussion heightened by his need to combatively address it, and I can't think of anything more irrelevant.

 

Obama mastered this

 

I agree it's not a partisan problem. I still disagree with its use, whoever uses it.

 

Are you sure? I've found the chair of the inauguration to be a very level headed guy (while he is a long time friend of Trump he's willing to discuss the full scope of issues). He cited specifically 99 magnetometers each capable of serving 400 persons/hour.

If you do the math, that's not enough unless they only used those on the two most forward zones. And I could see them only doing that....

 

You would think it should be fairly straightforward

 

To you.

 

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/sec...at-magnetometers-shrank-inaugural-crowd-size/

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/fact-check-trump-overstates-crowd-size-inaugural-44957818

 

Yeah. It's an easy political out. Folks can claim any amount of savings they want to make any plan look like a no-brainer. Then, when those claims turn out to be grossly inaccurate, they can trot out unforeseen circumstances as to why it was off. After they get what they wanted.

 

I look forward to the Trump Administration's war with that lyin' Secret Service. They are some of the most dishonest folks out there, ya know.

 

I'll wait until Brietbart puts out a story on this before I form an opinion.

#donttrustlyincrookedmedia/secretservicetheyarethemostdishonestpeopleoutthere

 

And now we are going to have two-three days about "alternative facts". Awesome.

 

If you want to play that card the media just got busted lying about the MLK bust.

 

I've missed the days of known knowns, known unknowns, unknown knowns and unknown unknowns.

 

They did & should have. A retraction was made. Ever see a Brietbart retraction? Maybe there are some, I don't know.

 

And it was one media guy, not the entire media apparatus.